Police and fire crews have spent the morning at a multi-vehicle crash in Ashbourne's town centre.

Just before 7am a lorry crashed into a row of cars parked in Station Street, according to police.

Nobody has been injured in the accident and no arrests have been made.

The road was closed off while fire crews got to work making sure the damaged vehicles were safe, but opened in time for the morning rush-hour.

Ashbourne's station manager Paul Holmes says seven cars which had been badly damaged were checked, along with a further three that had been "clipped".

Police also called out contractors from gas supply firm Cadent to check supply to properties as one of the cars had damaged a plastic gas supply pipe when it was pushed onto the kerb.

Lorry crashes into seven parked cars in Station Road, Ashbourne

Residents report hearing a series of loud bangs and stepping outside to find their cars damaged.

Andy Brooks, who has lived in Station Road for 18 years and had parks two cars in the road was unable to get to work, in Matlock, today after both his cars - a Vauxhall Zafira and a Toyota Yaris - were written off.

He said: "I woke up and thought, my God, what's that, and just heard loads of bangs.

"I've lost a wing mirror here and I've had another car written off, but nothing like this has happened.

"I'm still shaking because half an hour later I'd have been getting in that car.

"It's been getting worse in the last three years, it's just the volume of traffic. We can spend five minutes some days trying to cross this road. I don't know what we can do.

"The weird thing is, we've been talking about selling both our cars and getting one nice car. This has answered that now."

Mr Brooks's neighbour, Sarah Hart, has lived in her house for six years. Her car just avoided being hit, but she says she has "lost count" of the number of times she's seen cars damaged.